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National Academy of Sciences is 150 years old

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 Edi­to­r­ial by NAS Pres­i­dent Ralph Cicerone
An edi­to­r­ial by NAS Pres­i­dent Ralph Cicerone will appear in the March 19 print edi­tion of the Pro­ceed­ings of the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences. On the occa­sion of NAS’s 150th year of ser­vice to the nation, Cicerone dis­cusses the mis­sions and work of the Acad­emy and not only its his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance but also its value in the future.”

 What’s New @ The National Acad­e­mies, Mon­day, March 12, 2013  

In other news from Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, today: the Pro­ceed­ings of the NAS will be stored in Por­tico.  As an elec­tronic archiv­ing ser­vice provider, Por­tico will act as a per­pet­ual access mech­a­nism for this title.

Bonnie Bassler is the recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award

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Date:  Jan. 20, 2011

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Acad­emy Hon­ors 13 for Major Con­tri­bu­tions to Science

 

WASHINGTON — The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences (NAS) will honor 13 indi­vid­u­als with awards rec­og­niz­ing extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ments in the areas of biol­ogy, chem­istry, physics, eco­nom­ics and psychology.

 

The recip­i­ents for 2011 are:

 

“Bon­nie L. Bassler, Howard Hughes Med­ical Insti­tute Inves­ti­ga­tor, and Squibb Pro­fes­sor in the depart­ment of mol­e­c­u­lar biol­ogy at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, is the recip­i­ent of the Richard Louns­bery Award. Bassler is being hon­ored for her pio­neer­ing dis­cov­er­ies of the uni­ver­sal use of chem­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion among bac­te­ria and the elu­ci­da­tion of struc­tural and reg­u­la­tory mech­a­nisms con­trol­ling bac­te­r­ial assem­blies. This $50,000 prize rec­og­nizes extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ment by French and Amer­i­can sci­en­tists in biol­ogy and medicine.”

To see the whole list:

Source: What’s New @ The National Academies

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“Change the Equation” new government mandated non-profit led by CEOs to improve STEM education

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White House Announces Launch of New Non­profit to Strengthen STEM Education
The President at MLK Charter School in New Orleans, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 11/15/09.
By Molly Galvin

Sep­tem­ber 16, 2010 — The Obama admin­is­tra­tion announced today the launch of “Change the Equa­tion,” a new non­profit cor­po­ra­tion led by CEOs in an effort to improve edu­ca­tion in sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy, engi­neer­ing, and math (STEM). Accord­ing to the White House, the ini­tia­tive is a response to the president’s speech at the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences in April 2009 in which he urged Amer­i­cans to ele­vate STEM edu­ca­tion as a national pri­or­ity. The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, National Acad­emy of Engi­neer­ing, and National Research Coun­cil have a long his­tory of efforts to improve STEM edu­ca­tion, includ­ing the influ­en­tial 2005 report Ris­ing Above the Gath­er­ing Storm: Ener­giz­ing and Employ­ing Amer­ica for a Brighter Eco­nomic Future, which urged improve­ments in K-12 STEM edu­ca­tion to keep the U.S. eco­nom­i­cally competitive.

Assessment Report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Harold Shapiro, Chair of the InterAcademy (IAC) Council Committee to Review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), holds up a copy of the IAC's newly-released independent review of IPCC processes and procedures, during a press conference at UN Headquarters. UN photo by Devra Berkowitz.

August 30, 2010 — A new report from the Inter­A­cad­emy Coun­cil, an orga­ni­za­tion of the world’s sci­ence acad­e­mies, includ­ing the U.S. National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, says that the process used by the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change to pro­duce its peri­odic assess­ment reports has been a suc­cess over­all, but that IPCC needs to reform its man­age­ment struc­ture, strengthen its pro­ce­dures, and become more trans­par­ent to han­dle increas­ingly com­plex cli­mate assess­ments and greater pub­lic scrutiny. The report was released today at the United Nations.

Source:   Sept. 13, 2010

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey

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Astro2010: The Astron­omy and Astro­physics Decadal Sur­vey [pdf]

 

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_049810

 

“Every ten years, the National Research Coun­cil (NRC) of The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences pro­duces a series of sur­veys related to their areas of sci­en­tific inquiry. The pub­lic release of the Astro2010 sur­vey of astron­omy and astro­physics took place on August 13, 2010, and vis­i­tors to this site can read the report and also watch the web­cast from the release event. The goal of this pub­li­ca­tion is to “rec­om­mend pri­or­i­ties for the most impor­tant sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal activ­i­ties of the decade 2010–2020.” Draw­ing on the exper­tise of schol­ars at Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, Vas­sar Col­lege, the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago, and other insti­tu­tions, the report is a cru­cial piece of work on what should be done across the board in these two branches of the phys­i­cal sciences.”

 

From the Scout Report, Univ. of Wisconsin, Aug.27, 2010

Guide to Ethical Conduct in Research Released

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March 27, 2009 — A new edi­tion of On Being a Sci­en­tist: A Guide to Respon­si­ble Con­duct in Research offers researchers — par­tic­u­larly early-career sci­en­tists and their men­tors — guid­ance on how to con­duct research respon­si­bly and avoid mis­con­duct such as fab­ri­ca­tion and pla­gia­rism. The guide, issued by the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, National Acad­emy of Engi­neer­ing, and Insti­tute of Med­i­cine, includes new case stud­ies and has been updated to reflect the emer­gence of elec­tronic pub­lish­ing and glob­al­iza­tion of research.

 

From    27 March, 2009

National Academy of Sciences honors 18 scientists

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yellow bullet  Acad­emy Hon­ors 18 for Major Con­tri­bu­tions to Sci­ence
Jan. 28, 2009: The NAS will honor 18 indi­vid­u­als in 2009 with awards rec­og­niz­ing extra­or­di­nary sci­en­tific achieve­ments in the areas of biol­ogy, chem­istry, geol­ogy, astron­omy, social sci­ences, psy­chol­ogy, and appli­ca­tion of sci­ence for the pub­lic good.

Source:  Jan. 30, 2009